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Forbes’s billionaires list and the growth of inequality in Russia The American business magazine Forbes recently published its list of the world’s billionaires for 2005, which included 33 Russian citizens, illustrating once again how the political life of contemporary Russia, under the leadership of President V. Putin, is aimed, first and foremost, at the satisfaction of the interests of post-Soviet big business and oligarchs....
Posted: Sun, Apr 2, 2006 10:59pm PDT
If You Think the Third World Debt Crisis was Solved Last Summer at the G8, Think Again There's Much More to be Done on Debt Relief...
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 9:51pm PST
Plan to drive homeless out of downtown Richmond, Virginia In line with the nationwide trend, the city of Richmond, Virginia, backed by business and Virginia Commonwealth University, is carrying out policies that hide homelessness and punish the poor. Construction of a new building that will consolidate meal services to the city’s homeless and working poor is slated to begin this summer....
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 6:31am PST
US home foreclosures on the rise Millions of Americans stand to face enormous financial strain or foreclosure when their adjustable-rate mortgages reset this year. The number of mortgage holders slipping behind in monthly payments rose steadily throughout the winter, according to major foreclosure tracking companies. As federal interest rates continue to increase, the number of borrowers defaulting on their mortgages is certain to grow....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 8:55am PST
'Generation Stuck' -- Young People Take on the Opportunity Gap As more and more doors to economic security are being shut, young people are finding new paths to adulthood and challenging the forces keeping them locked out of the American Dream. New America Media contributor Raj Jayadev is the editor of Silicon Valley De-Bug, the voice of young workers, writers and artists in Silicon Valley and a NAM project....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 7:22am PST
Much Too Little; Much Too Late: House Katrina Aid Package Last week, by a vote of 348-71, the House passed a bill to provide $19.1 billion for cleanup and rebuilding of the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. H.R. 4939, "The Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, passed six and a half months after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, despite the efforts of key Republicans to remove Katrina funding from the bill entirely....
Posted: Sun, Mar 19, 2006 2:32pm PST
Florida Medicaid cuts target food for disabled children In a despicable and callous act, Florida Medicaid officials have begun denying funding for special liquid food formulas used by some children suffering from HIV/AIDS, undergoing dialysis, or living with severe physical disabilities, according to reports published in the Miami Herald. Thousands of children are endangered by the unannounced policy change. Doctors and dietitians have condemned the cuts....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 7:21am PST
Call to Action: Take Action on FY07 HUD Appropriations Call the DC offices of your Representative and Senators this week and ask to speak to the staff person in each who deals with housing issues.
1-877-322-5742...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 1:52pm PST
Poland: Winter of death for impoverished A gruesome social precedent has been set in Poland, a country that for the past seventeen years has witnessed a dramatic attack on the living standards of the working class. At last count more than 240 people have frozen to death since October 2005....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 11:01am PST
Life Under the Klan Wasn't This Bad: Gitmo on the Mississippi Sometimes the injustices here in New Orleans leave me numb. But the continuing debacle of our criminal justice system inspires in me a sense of indignation I thought was lost to cynicism long ago. Ursula Price, a staff investigator for the indigent defense organization A Fighting Chance, has met with several thousand hurricane survivors who were imprisoned at the time of the hurricane, and her stories chill me "I grew up in small town Mississippi," she tells me. "We had the Kla...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:52am PST
3/14-19: Walkin to New Orleans at the call of the Mobile Veterans For Peace Chapter #130, (people) will conduct a march between Mobile, AL, and New Orleans,
LA, from March 14-19, 2006...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:54pm PST
ACTIVISM: Congress Poised to Pass Bill Taking Away Your Right to Know What's in Your Food TOLL FREE...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 1:10am PST
Oscar Winning Hip Hop Song Promotes 'Culture of Death' The Oscar winning song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" promotes the culture of death, so writes NAM contributor David Muhammad. Muhammad is the Executive Director of The Mentoring Center in Oakland....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:45am PST
A Nation Polarized Between Rich and Poor: America's Bleak Jobs Future On February 20 Forbes.com told its readers with a straight face that "the American job-generation machine rolls on. The economy will create 19 million new payroll jobs in the decade to 2014." Forbes took its information from the 10-year jobs projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor, released last December....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:34am PST
Michael Eric Dyson on Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster As President Bush prepares to pay a visit to the Gulf Coast six months after Hurricane Katrina hit, we speak with University of Pennsylvania professor and preacher Michael Eric Dyson about his new book "Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 6:34am PST
Bird flu in India: profits override public health concerns When the first bird flu outbreaks were reported in India last month, the central government issued mixed messages to the public, at times minimising the arrival of avian influenza in the country, while taking sweeping measures to cull bird flocks....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 10:33pm PST
Katrina 6 Months Later: Activists Discuss Grassroots Disaster Relief, Housing Evictions... Six months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, we speak with two activists about what many call the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Jordan Flaherty is an organizer with the New Orleans Network and an editor of Left Turn magazine; Kevin Powell is a journalist and author who is helping to launch Katrina On the Ground, an initiative which will bring student delegations from around the country to the Gulf Coast to work with local aid organizations....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 7:24am PST
Katrina Video Shows Bush is No 'Tough Guy' President Footage of a videoconference between President Bush and disaster officials a day before Hurricane Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast is smoking-gun proof of the president's poor leadership skills, the writer says. Earl Ofari Huthchinson is an associate editor at New America Media and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 10:25pm PST
Help Workers Left Jobless by Katrina Disaster jobless benefits for 140,000 workers left unemployed by Katrina are about to run out. You can help those families today by telling your U.S. representative to pass the Katrina Emergency Assistance Act, which will extend those benefits for 13 weeks....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 10:01pm PST
Federal Reserve report documents widening inequality in US The Federal Reserve released its “Survey of Consumer Finance” on February 23, a report that measures changes in income and other financial measures and is produced every three years. Together with a number of reports that have emerged recently, the Federal Reserve data gives a partial portrait of the state of social relations in the United States—characterized by growing social inequality and increased financial hardship for most Americans....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 10:19pm PST
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